Big love, big happenings

Hello! Lots have been going on this month! We left LA on the 27th of December and right before we got into the car to come home, baby man started crawling! Yeayyyy! Since then, he hasn't stopped and is now super fast at crawling and has started cruising along furniture. He also said "da-da"! I know the books say they really don't know who they are referring to, but I really think he does!!! When Brandon is home, he says it over and over again! I started writing this post over a week ago and the other day, Lucas started saying "ma-ma".  :)

Lily has been super cute at helping getting him to talk. She'll say" Say da-da, bubba. Say ma-ma, bubba" Say we (Lily), bubba.". She is such a good sister. Tonight I sat and watched him try to wrestle her on the ground by pulling up on her. Right now, she laughs at it, but he better not DARE pull her hair. If he pulls her hair, it's over and a meltdown ensues! All we have to worry about is the hair pulling.  It seems that they wrestle and laugh all the time!  I think it bothers me more than it bothers them! 

 Baby man at 7 months!

8 months old!

The kids are getting so big, the other day, he weighted in at 23.6 lbs and is 30 1/4" tall and Lily is now 37 1/4" tall and 33.8 lbs.   Lily is recognizing a lot of her letters and numbers these days and working hard on potty training....well, we are in a bit of a slump right now, but that's ok.  We were doing AMAZING the past few months, but not so much the past few weeks. Lucas is doing everything he is supposed to and more.  He is a great eater just like his sister and is ACTUALLY using a sippy cup wayyyy better than Lily did.  He went straight to the tilty cup!  No valves.  We use it sometimes for Lily at the table when her open cups are dirty and one day he picked it up and just started drinking it!  He ended up drinking it completely!  Very strange as we had such a hard time finding a good one for Lily to take at this age, but I'm happy.  Those valves are such a pain to clean!

My sweet Lily belle also started Mothers Day Out one day a week this month. She is doing great there and really enjoying herself.  She isn't napping at school, but that's ok.  She's always been a finicky sleeper.  I just pick her up a little bit early and she naps at home. She also started SoccerTots this month.  She loves it!  They do very little that resembles soccer, but she really enjoys getting out there and running around with her friends. 

We have a lot coming up in the next few months and we are just going to be all over the place this summer.  My dear friend Katherine from high school is expecting her first baby in July, I'm co-hosting a baby shower for my friend Melissa next month, I'm trying to plan a Mardi GRAS party for our playgroup, my sister is having another surgery, John and Christine's twin boys are expected March/Aprilish and then everything just goes cray cray with dance recitals, weddings and vacations.  This all leads up to our big trip to Disney in October!  :)